2009 Jakarta bombings

The 2009 Jakarta bombings were two bombings on 17 July 2009 that struck the JW Marriott Hotel at 7:47 AM and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel ten minutes later at 7:57 AM in the city of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. 7 people (3 from Australia, 2 from Netherlands, 1 from New Zealand, and one local Indonesian) were killed in the two suicide bombings, which were carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah.

Prelude
Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim island nation, was a popular location for tourists from Australia, New Zealand, and other Western countries due to its tropical rainforests and its many islands. However, starting in the 1990s, Islamic terrorists began to attack foreigners and Indonesians so that they could implement sharia as the legal system for the government, and the most important terrorist group in Indonesia was Jemaah Islamiyah, a group associated with al-Qaeda. It killed several tourists in the 2002 Bali bombings and a bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in 2003 as the verdict for the terrorists was announced, and Jakarta was the location of several other bombings. In 2009, Jemaah Islamiyah leader Mat Top built bombs for use in a terrorist attack, and Saifudin Jaelani recruited Dani Dwi Permana and Nana Ikhwan Maulana as suicide bombers that could be sent to perform a martyrdom operation in Jakarta. Hotel rooms were rented for them at the Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott hotels, and they were to blow themselves up and kill many tourists staying there.

Bombings
At 7:47 AM, Dani Dwi Permana left his room in the JW Marriott Hotel (the site of the 2003 Jakarta bombing by Asmar Latin Sani) and detonated his explosives in a small rented breakfast room where CEOs and other expatriate businessmen were going to hold a meeting. The lobby of the Plaza Mutiara bombing was destroyed by the explosion. Ten minutes later, Nana Ikhwan Maulana detonated his explosive belt in the Airlangga Restaurant on the second floor of the hotel, blowing out the windows and destroying a part of the facade of the hotel, shattering and scattering glass around the hotel. 7 people, including an Indonesian waiter and a few foreign businessmen, were killed in the attacks; 53 people were injured. The Jakarta bombings were the most serious act of terror in Indonesia since the 2003 Jakarta bombing, and the insurgency would continue from there.